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Man And Wife
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →
and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. — read the full passage →
because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →
And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
And the man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.
(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →
Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.